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PeaceCon 2024: Status Quo No More

Building Peace in a Time of Rising Violent Conflict

Date: Tuesday, September 10, 2024 / Time: 11:00am - 5:00pm EDT

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Amid a global rise in fragility and violence, including a deepening war in Ukraine and crisis in the Middle East, the peacebuilding community is navigating a dramatically evolving conflict landscape. New trends like artificial intelligence and environmental disruptions could cause large-scale shocks and violence. Meanwhile, a general decline in social cohesion and trust is complicating the resolution of violent conflicts. The rise of a wide array of new actors — both state and nonstate — is bringing forth a multipolar world, and new global fault lines are emerging. Despite these new challenges and shifts, the peacebuilding community has an opportunity to leverage scalable, evidence-based and locally led solutions to prevent and reduce conflict drivers while helping to build more sustainable peace and resiliency.

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Charting a way forward for the peacebuilding community will require reframing peacebuilding in ways that are actionable, practical and results-oriented. It will require more effectively and urgently building champions among communities of policymakers, business leaders, bilateral and multilateral donors, the nonprofit sector, and the broader public.

Join USIP and the Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP) for the 12th annual PeaceCon, the premier global gathering designed to address contemporary challenges in peacebuilding and conflict resolution. This year’s conference will focus on the theme “Status Quo No More: Building Peace in a Time of Rising Violent Conflict” and bring together senior officials, thought leaders, policymakers and practitioners from around the globe to explore and tackle the challenges facing the peacebuilding community.

Take part in the conversation on social media using #PeaceCon2024 and #StatusQuoNoMore.

PeaceCon Day 1 is hosted by USIP on September 10. To learn more about Days 2 and 3 of PeaceCon 2024, please visit AfP’s website.

Speakers Include:

Mary McAleese, keynote remarks
Former President, Republic of Ireland 

Alan Fitts
Board Chair, Alliance for Peacebuilding; Vice President, Strategy and Operations and Chief of Staff, Corporate Affairs and Communications, American Express

Ambassador Miguel Diaz
Board Member, Alliance for Peacebuilding; Former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See 

Anne Witkowsky
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, U.S. Department of State 

Brittany Brown
Acting Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau of Conflict Prevention and Stabilization, USAID (TBC) 

James Saenz
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Counternarcotics and Stabilization Policy, U.S. Department of Defense

Liz Hume
Executive Director, Alliance for Peacebuilding

Ambassador George E. Moose
Acting President and CEO, U.S. Institute of Peace

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